Chair.



No. 590,103. Patenied Dec. 31, mm.

E. A. FARISH.

CHAIR.

(Application filed Mar. 29, 19014 (No Model.)

TTnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDlVARD A. FARISH, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF THREE- FOURTHS TO JOHN L. GRAY AND CHARLES H. MCLEAN, OF ST.

LOUIS, MISSOURI.

CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 690,103, dated December 31, 1901. Application filed March 29,1901. Serial No. 58,440. [No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD A. FARISH, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Chairs, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective View of my improved chair. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view through the same. Fig. 3is a rear elevational view. Fig. 4 is an enlarged rear elevational view of a portion of the back of the chair. Fig. 5 is a sectional view on line 5 5, Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a top plan view of the construction shown in Fig. i. Fig. 7 is a detail view of one of the hooks for cooperating with the spring, and Fig. 8is a detail view of another of said hooks.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in chairs, an object being to construct the back of separatelymovable panels, a hinge being provided for holding said panels together,wherebysaid panels may be used as a clothes-press.

Another object is to construct a device of the character described in a simple cheap manner, the chair having an artistic appearance and capable of use as an article of furniture in addition to serving as a clothes press and rack.

With these objects in View the invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of the several parts, all as will hereinafter be described and afterward pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, A indicates the seat of the chair, B the front legs thereof, and O the back legs, said back legs extending upwardly and forming standards to support the paneled back. Under the bottom of the chair I prefer to arrange a box D, having a door (1, said box being designed to receive shoes, doc. The standards C are provided with vertically elongated sockets c for receiving a hinge pintle or rod E. On this pintle are arranged the eyes of leaf-hinges F, the leaves of said hinges being constructed of material so as to yield slightly. Leaf-hinges F are formed of two pieces, as any ordinary hinge, each leaf being formed with eyes, through which the pintle passes, said leaves being secured to their respective panels. Two panels G and H are carried by the leaf-hinges, one of said panels having hooks I and 1, arranged at its edges, with which hooks cooperate the ends of a leaf-spring J, said leaf-spring being pivotally mounted in the center of panel H. The ends of this leaf-spring project beyond the hooks I and I and are provided with projectionsjforengagement with stops K, mounted near the top of the back-leg standards. By this construction the back-leg standards are braced and lateral movement is prevented. These stops have curved forward edges 7: and recesses 71;. Fingers 7c project upwardly from the rear edges of the stops to arrest the ends of the leaf-spring J, when the panels constituting the back of the chair are swung upwardly and backwardly. A coat-holder L may be suspended from the pivotal point of the leaf-spring J, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

In operation if it is desired to use the back of the chair as a clothes-press the panels con stituting the back of the chair are moved bodily in an upward direction, the elongated sockets permitting this, so as to raise the ends of the leaf-spring out of the notches 7r. When the back of the chair is swung forwardly, the leaf-spring may be turned, so as to'disengage the ends thereof from the hooks I and I, one of said hooks opening upwardly and the other downwardly, as shown in Figs. 7 and 8, to permit of this disengagement. The panels constituting the back may now be separated sufficiently to permit of the introduction of a pair of trousers, or the legs thereof, after which the panels are closed and the leaf-spring swung on its pivotal point into rengagement with the hooks I and I. The back of the chair may now be swung upwardly and backwardly until the ends of the leaf-spring engage the stops K, the entire back being lifted bodily until the ends of the leaf-spring .I register with the notches 7c, and the weight of the back causes the ends of the leaf-spring to drop into the notches and lock the back of the chair in a vertical position. The coatholder maynow be used, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2. The box D under the seat of the chair may be employed for any purpose, such as for receiving slippers, shoes, overshoes, and the like.

I am aware-that minor changes inthe construction, arrangement, and combination of the several parts of my chair may be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without in the least departing from the nature and principle of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by'Letters Patent, is-

1. In a chair, the combination with suitable supports, of a common pintle secured to said supports, two panels pivotally mounted on said pintle and constituting the back of the -chair, and means for holding saidpanels together, substantially as described.

2. .In a chair, the combination with suitable supports, of a common pintle securedto said supports, two panels pivotally mounted on said pintle, said panels being independently movable, and means for yieldingly holding said panels together, substantially as described.

3. In a chair,thecombination with suitable su.pports, of two panels pivotally mounted thereon, means for yieldingly holding said panels'together, and devices for locking the panels in anupright position, substantially as described.

.4. In a chair, the combination with elongated sockets, of. a rod arranged therein, paneled ed es 70 recesses 70, and fin ers k, a

pintle-rod arranged in the vertically-elongated sockets, yielding leaf-hinges mounted on said pintle-rod, panels secured to said leafhinges, books I and 1 arranged on the edges of one of said panels, and leaf-springJ mounted on the other of said panels for engagement with said hooks I and-I, the ends of ,said11eafspring projecting laterally, beyond thelhooks for cooperating with the stops K, substantially as described.

6. In a chair, the combinationwith theseat, of supports therefor, aback composed of ,two like panels mounted on said supports and cooperating with each other to form a clothespress, and means for exerting ayieldingpressure to hold said panels togethensubstantially as described.

'In testimony whereof I hereunto affixmy signature, in the presence of-two witnesses, this 26th day of'March, 1.901.

EDWARD A. :FARISH.

Witnesses GEORGE BAKEWELL, RALPH KALISH. 

